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Re: USS Fitzgerald collision with container ship
From: Bruce J. Pennino
Date: 2017 Jun 19, 00:23 -0400
From: Bruce J. Pennino
Date: 2017 Jun 19, 00:23 -0400
There is so much here that is difficult to understand. How can a modern USN
destroyer not have gotten out of the way? Radar tracking all nearby ships?
Would it be standard procedure for a collision alarm to sound a minute or two in
advance as the container ship closed on the destroyer? Get people out of
bunks! Sad beyond words.
Bruce
From: Frank Reed
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 10:38 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: USS Fitzgerald collision with container
ship
Reports are now coming in that some of the seven missing sailors have been
found dead in the flooded spaces:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-navy-ship-collides-merchant-vessel-off-coast/story?id=48092522.
The point of impact below the waterline is apparently very close to one of the main berthing areas, a large compartment full of bunks. It's a terrible scenario: at the instant of that tremendous impact, deep in the night at 2:30 in the morning, when dozens and dozens of young men and women were asleep in their bunks, the steel hull would have opened like a cracked egg. The sea poured in, and some were trapped and drowned.
Frank Reed
